@inproceedings{e6b8862ea8cd48dc91ccb715f5e907d7,
title = "Workshop: Promoting Engineering to K12 students through Spatially Challenging Making and Outreach Activities",
abstract = "Outreach activities are an important and valuable approach to promoting engineering education and careers to young people. They provide an excellent way to show that engineering can be fun, challenging and rewarding. With some careful thinking, they can also be used to promote and develop spatial ability, a cognitive ability that is very important to engineering. The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate examples of outreach activities that are the result of such careful thinking. Those who attend this workshop will be able to: 1. Explain why and how spatial ability is so important to success in engineering education 2. Summarise findings from research on gender and SES differences in spatial ability 3. List some key features of hands-on outreach activities that require spatial thinking 4. Find and explain a lesson plan or set of instructions to run a spatial outreach activity 5. Suggest ideas for how they could adopt spatial thinking into their outreach activities.",
keywords = "Design-based learning, K12 Engineering, Maker education, STEM outreach, Spatial ability",
author = "G. Duffy and M. Westerhof and D. Keogh and C. O'Kane",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 SEFI 2023 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education: Engineering Education for Sustainability, Proceedings. All Rights Reserved.; 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, SEFI 2023 ; Conference date: 11-09-2023 Through 14-09-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.21427/01Y1-YF68",
language = "English",
series = "SEFI 2023 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education: Engineering Education for Sustainability, Proceedings",
publisher = "European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)",
pages = "3138--3143",
editor = "Ger Reilly and Mike Murphy and Nagy, {Balazs Vince} and Hannu-Matti Jarvinen",
booktitle = "SEFI 2023 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education",
}